Facilities

The research laboratories of the Department of Pharmacology are centrally located in the Health Science Complex of the UVM College of Medicine, with close proximity to the undergraduate campus as well as Fletcher Allen Health Care Center.

The Department of Pharmacology has extensive internal facilities and equipment to perform a variety of research techniques including a Noran Confocal Microscope for temporal fluorescence imaging, and facilities for HPLC analysis, cell culture, molecular biology, epifluorescence microscopy and electrophysiology. The department also houses the Totman Center for Cerebrovascular Research, funded by a private endowment to study the physiology and pharmacology of human cerebral arteries.

Other Facilities within the Health Science Complex

Neuroscience Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE ): Funded by the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health, COBRE goals include the creation of a mentoring program to support junior neuroscience faculty; an imaging/physiology core to support the research projects of the junior faculty; a cellular/molecular core to support the research projects of the junior faculty; a University-wide Neuroscience Seminar Series and Annual Neuroscience Retreat; a mechanism of communication between basic scientists and clinicians that facilitates development of translational research; and a University-wide mechanism for Neuroscience Graduate Education.